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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30, 31 and 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chicken-Crow-For-Day do?
(a) Proclaims himself as a dyed-in-the-wool sinner.
(b) Proposes to Essie.
(c) Helps himself to some of the collections as they pass.
(d) Declares that he should be the new preacher.

2. About what is Essie worried?
(a) About how she can get out of the city with some money.
(b) About how Laura seems ill.
(c) About when she can bring her daughter to live with her.
(d) About the way Laura is carrying on.

3. How is Marietta described?
(a) Very light skinned with light eyes.
(b) Tiny, delicate, and beautiful.
(c) Large but proportionally shaped.
(d) About the same size as Essie.

4. What does Laura plan to do when cold weather hits?
(a) Stop preaching for the winter.
(b) Laura makes plans to rent an empty apartment, buy some chairs and a podium, and set up a church.
(c) Stand over the grate across the street to preach.
(d) She is not sure.

5. What do Essie's imaginings lead her to do?
(a) Pray.
(b) Dance.
(c) Cry.
(d) Sing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who isn't around as much as he used to be?

2. Of what does Laura accuse Essie?

3. What are Essie and Laura doing at the opening of this novel?

4. To what does Birdie confess?

5. What does Laura want from Essie the next morning?

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